Lucy McRae is a trained interior designer who worked for design firms, then the Phillips Horizon lab, before establishing an independent studio practice. At Phillips she acquired the title of ‘body architect’. McRae continues working in this domain by creating video and photographic pieces where the body, often McRae’s own, is shown as an adapted organ reacting to internal and external conditions that are fantastical and powerful.
What makes McRae’s work unique is that the effects are achieved through adaptation of the most commonly available materials. The brilliance of McRae’s practice is in the subtlety and nuance that is brought to the most ubiquitous of materials, through the patterning and subtle manipulation of their intended use.